MUSEUM COURSE TO GIVE EXHIBITION OF STILL-LIFE

A committee of students taking the Museum Course at Harvard University is arranging a History of Still Life Exhibition to be held at the Fogg Art Museum, from Saturday, April 4, to Thursday, April 30. The object of the exhibition is to suggest, through representative masterpieces, the history of still-life painting and its present trends.

The students are attempting to present and explain a form of art as yet little enjoyed by the casual gallery visitor, but which they hope to make of dramatic historical appeal as well as of aesthetic interest. Moderns are well represented in the show, which will include still-life paintings by Cezanne. Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, and Walt Kuhn, lent by the Marie Harriman Gallery of New York. "Bananes at Ananas" by Renoir, from Durand Ruel of New York, is of especial interest since this is the first time it has been publicly shown in this country.

Wildenstein and Company of New York has sent a brilliant Picasso and a fine Benoir. The works of Odilon Redon, the mystic, as well as that of Magnet, will be shown through the courtesy of M. Knoedler and Company of New York, who are also contributing two seventeenth-century flower paintings showing the Dutch tradition as practiced in England and France. Arthur Edwin Bye, of Philadelphia, is lending both a monumental Van Huysum and a canvas of unusual historic interest, containing a medallion by Van Dyck enclosed in a flower wreath by "Velvet" Breughel.

The scope of the historical pictures is extended to include a Jan David de Heem, obtained through the cooperation of the F. Kleinberger Galleries of New York, a sixteenth-century interior attributed to Quentin Massys, lent by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and a South-German interior lent by A. S. Drey, of New York. Dunean Phillips, of Washington, is contributing a Monet and a Bonnard.